FromSoftware games have a tradition of including sidequests with tragic endings. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is no different and one of the most enigmatic involves wandering samurai Jinzaemon Kumano.

There’s something magical about the samurai fantasy—the discipline, the honor, the razor-sharp duels under falling cherry blossoms. We’ve seen it in Kurosawa films, in anime, and in epic tales of lone ...

Most of us probably expected Team Ninja’s follow-up to the Nioh series, Rise of the Ronin, to learn the most from the studio’s earlier action games. While this may yet prove to be true when we get our ...

I've always found it exhilarating that video games have the power to transport us to different eras, even more so when we're talking about settings as representative as feudal Japan. Being my favorite ...